Friday, November 20, 2009
Two Thumbs Down
(1)
Mozart Piano Concerto #1: Good background music as you read the blog and links. And the soloist is a yum-yum! Mozart was eleven years old when he wrote this and apparently had a little help from daddy.
Movement one.
Movement two.
Movement three.
Been an interesting week as I began a new game of C-III over the weekend and am now at the beginning of the Industrial Age, building railroads and factories. Also been doing a lot of Drench, and web surfing. And then there's TiVo: lots of interesting stuff to watch, some of which gets deleted before I can get around to it. But I keep up to date with my favorites, of course, for example, Doctor Oz. Yes, folks, he's at it again, trying to cure our sexual ills without mentioning male sexual mutilation (circumcision). Indeed, in the most recent sex show (on the anatomy of sex) he has diagrams of everything male and female except for the head of the penis which he avoids showing to us by obscuring it with a label reading, 'penis.' Eheh. His body also blocked that part of the diagram much of the time. Got a good laugh out of that one.
Another recent show dealt with one of my favorite subjects, electromagnetic radiation. Seems cell phones can be hazardous to your health if used excessively. We all know about the dangers of driving while talking on our cell phones (thus diverting much-needed brain power away from the task of operating a dangerous vehicle). Right? But that wasn't part of the program. Doctor Oz wanted to make you aware of a much lesser, risk: Radio Frequency Radiation from your cell phone's antenna. It may cause brain cancer in a small number of individuals over a period of 30-40 years or so. Darn. Everybody in the audience was scared shitless, of course, right on cue. My favorite part of the show was the 'testimony' of a female expert on 'cancer causing toxins,' Dr. Devra Davis (a nice Jewish lady, of course). Doctor Devra was not as expert on electromagnetism as she may have been on chemistry, because she muddled her explanation of why the danger was greatest when the signal was weakest. Made no sense at all to me, and I'm an 'expert.' Do some cell phones increase power output in areas where the incoming signal is weak? If so, that might clarify her muddled explanation. To summarize this week's Dr. Oz shows: two thumbs down.
Mozart Piano Concerto #1: Good background music as you read the blog and links. And the soloist is a yum-yum! Mozart was eleven years old when he wrote this and apparently had a little help from daddy.
Movement one.
Movement two.
Movement three.
Been an interesting week as I began a new game of C-III over the weekend and am now at the beginning of the Industrial Age, building railroads and factories. Also been doing a lot of Drench, and web surfing. And then there's TiVo: lots of interesting stuff to watch, some of which gets deleted before I can get around to it. But I keep up to date with my favorites, of course, for example, Doctor Oz. Yes, folks, he's at it again, trying to cure our sexual ills without mentioning male sexual mutilation (circumcision). Indeed, in the most recent sex show (on the anatomy of sex) he has diagrams of everything male and female except for the head of the penis which he avoids showing to us by obscuring it with a label reading, 'penis.' Eheh. His body also blocked that part of the diagram much of the time. Got a good laugh out of that one.
Another recent show dealt with one of my favorite subjects, electromagnetic radiation. Seems cell phones can be hazardous to your health if used excessively. We all know about the dangers of driving while talking on our cell phones (thus diverting much-needed brain power away from the task of operating a dangerous vehicle). Right? But that wasn't part of the program. Doctor Oz wanted to make you aware of a much lesser, risk: Radio Frequency Radiation from your cell phone's antenna. It may cause brain cancer in a small number of individuals over a period of 30-40 years or so. Darn. Everybody in the audience was scared shitless, of course, right on cue. My favorite part of the show was the 'testimony' of a female expert on 'cancer causing toxins,' Dr. Devra Davis (a nice Jewish lady, of course). Doctor Devra was not as expert on electromagnetism as she may have been on chemistry, because she muddled her explanation of why the danger was greatest when the signal was weakest. Made no sense at all to me, and I'm an 'expert.' Do some cell phones increase power output in areas where the incoming signal is weak? If so, that might clarify her muddled explanation. To summarize this week's Dr. Oz shows: two thumbs down.
